WHY? Why are college students on Food Stamps???!!! I never was.
I wonder what the DNC’s Hamas wing brings to the table.
Just see your “Peace Studies or Womens Studies profs for help
Going into debt with college loans
Living on Food Stamps
Majoring in weak fields like psychology
No bright futures here.
Free Food and Health care for people who earned nothing.
That’s what college endowments are for.
The article says all that need be said about both the writer and the ‘kollege’ students. (Mostly studies majors, obviously.) We’ll not talk about the ‘kolleges’ charging for joke degrees.
“Hannigan receives just under $300 a month from SNAP”
For an adult to eat the food my mother prepared would cost about half that.
SNAP benefits should be capped at $2.50/day/person, increasing as the CPI does.
Benefits paid in daily instead of monthly to prevent binge eating disorder.
“Binge eating disorder (BED)...can lead to significant health issues, including:
Obesity and related conditions (e.g., type 2 diabetes, heart disease)
Mental health problems (e.g., depression, anxiety)
Poor quality of life and social functioning”
Do those symptoms sound and look familiar?
Paying SNAP benefits in monthly lumps is unhealthy.
SNAP benefits would pay for things WIC does, excluding fish but including chicken and pork.
That's terrible. No college students ever had to deal with anything like that before now.
Let them eat Top Ramen.
GET A JOB ALREADY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Note for $28 (a weekly $2/day amount for two people), one can buy:
two pounds of chicken for ~$5,
four pounds of pasta for ~$4,
seven cans of vegetables for ~$5,
a gallon of milk for ~$3,
two loaves of bread for ~$3, and
a box of cereal (or a bag of fruit) for ~$3,
and still have ~$5 left over for say buying
a 10-pound bag of potatoes one week, or
a bag of sugar and 100 tea bags another week, or
a pound of butter and two boxes of store brand macaroni & cheese another week, or
12 eggs and two boxes of cake mix yet another week.
These “students” can afford to go to college but they can’t afford food?
This is the insanity of entitlement ushered in by the Rat party. Next these students will demand free housing, free transportation, free healthcare. Oh wait, they already are. /spit
The Babylon Bee had an article a few days ago about SNAP recipients trying without success to figure out what they could do to exchange their labor and time for money which they could then use to buy food.
I graduated with $7.49 to my name. I was a typical broke college student. Just like I was supposed to be.
Here's a clue - GET A FRIKIN' JOB!
Millions of us worked our way through college - some of us with families. We managed.
Bean and cheese burritos, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, top ramen and chunky soup, lots of ways to eat cheap/ My brother and I did it, they can too
No college student should be on any welfare.
I found out this was a “thing” in the late 1990s, when two guys from a small town a 100 miles away from the university I was at said they were both on Food Stamps and other aid, because they weren’t working.
I told them I was taking night classes and working through the day to pay for school and they said all I had to do was stop working and I’d qualify, like them.
It was completely disgusting, to me.
If you are able bodied, you should never get welfare.
My son is earning his masters degree to become a dietitian/nutritionist and is doing his internship at the local hospital which of course is unpaid. He was bar-tending at a small college bar working for tips and was making about $170/200 a night on the weekend in cash tips.
A woman came in and sat there, ordering a few off menu drinks and chatted him up, and did this for 3 nights straight for about an hour. On the third night she hit on him, and he very politely turned her down, he was just married in March of this year and his wife agreed that if him not wearing his wedding ring got him more tips she was fine with it.
The woman just smiled, handed him a card with a just a mans name on it and a phone number, told him they would love if he interviewed for a better position if he was interested.
It was for a bar-tending job at the new casino they built in Terre Haute, they were looking for someone to work Friday and Saturday nights only at the big bar that is on the top of the building. He interviewed and was offered the job on the spot, the woman was sizing him up and was looking for people who met their criteria.
Little @#$% will be making about $300/night cash tips when all is said and done, I would have killed to have a part time job like that while going to school. His wife is a teacher and was offered at job at Rose-Hulman college just down the street. I guess I can put a check next to that child as figuring out what it takes to be successful in life.